Scanned negative (2-7/8" x 4-7/8"), 1200 DPI, online JPG saved at 72 DPI 800 pixels on long edge with a MicroTek ScanMaker 9800XL. Scan is full frame of negative. No correction of film errors. Slight sharpness and contrast adjustments.

Copyright

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Coverage

Indiana-Jefferson County-Madison

Source

Madison-Jefferson County Public Library

Identifier

"Lemen1320-morrowcleaners"

Notes

No other prints or negatives available; Eastman-Kodak Brownie Camera No. 2C model A, with No. 130 film. Additional information: In the 1940s C.D. Morrow established a cleaning business here. Mr. Morrow had previously been located at 218 East Third Street. The store motto was rather "catchy", being a play on the name Morrow. It was "BRING YOUR CLOTHES TO MORROW AND GET THEM BACK TODAY". This building was the Harper Drug Store for about 70 years before Mr. Morrow acquired it. In 1846 John Edward Collison Franklin Harper established a drug store in Madison. He had several partners over the years and the name of the business reflected the different partnerships, but in about 1870 he moved the business to 233 East Main Street. From then on it was known as the J.E.C.F. Harper Drug Store. After his death in 1909, John's widow and his nephew Frank Harper ran the business. When Frank died in 1923, Merritt C. Harper took over. In 1946 the drug store moved to the northwest corner of Main and Jefferson and shortly thereafter it became the Morrow Cleaners. In the 1950s the building became the Madison Savings and Loan Company and today is home to the River Valley Financial Bank. Sources: Madison Courier; Madison Daily Herald; City Directories